Artful Wanderings

2010-12-01T09:57:00.001-08:00

Ten Two Studios is doing their annual printables give-away!!

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

Very cool stuff. Go check it out!

New Book - Collage Journeys by Jane Davies

2010-09-17T10:42:00.001-07:00

Picture compliments of Amazon. :)

Have wanted this book for about a year. Bought it last night. Love it so far. While there isn't a lot of brand new material in it for me, it's full of inspiration. I especially liked the segment about creative block and creative bottleneck.

It's nice to know that other artists go through the irritation of creative block as well.

Green Wax Collage

2010-08-02T09:23:00.001-07:00

Green Wax Collage
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

Not the greatest picture. And I think I used too much wax. This was the first piece I worked on this weekend.

Beach Wax Collage

2010-08-02T09:22:00.001-07:00

Beach Wax Collage
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

I worked in beeswax this weekend.....

ATC - USA - NFT

2010-07-15T20:17:00.001-07:00

ATC - USA - NFT
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

This one looks so much nicer in person. I really enjoyed making it. For a monthly swap. Theme: Patriotic

ATC - BWandRed1 - NFT

2010-07-15T20:16:00.001-07:00

ATC - BWandRed1 - NFT
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

Love this image. This ATC was for a monthly swap. Black, white & red.

Green Spread

2010-07-15T09:32:00.001-07:00

Green Spread
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

Geisha spread

2010-07-15T09:31:00.001-07:00

Geisha spread
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

The first spread in my altered book. Maiko Ayano is a real maiko and her photo was taken by one of my favorite Flickr contacts, Onihide. I adore his work and Ayano-san is my favorite maiko that he photographs.

Altered Art book cover

2010-07-15T09:28:00.001-07:00

Altered Art book cover
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

My altered book project that is making it rounds to visit my friends around the world. I can't wait to see what everyone does to it.

ATC - B for Bondage - NFT

2010-07-15T09:21:00.001-07:00

ATC - B for Bondage - NFT
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

Another swap card that turned out very nicely. The metal heart embellishment came as a gift from another swap.

Stars

2010-07-15T09:20:00.001-07:00

Stars
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

For a swap. One of my favorite cards. I wanted to keep it. :o)

Evy's Heart

2010-05-21T10:20:00.001-07:00

Evy's Heart
Originally uploaded by Animebabe

This is the heart page I made for Evy's birthday book. I really like how it turned out.

Flickr

2010-05-21T10:18:00.001-07:00

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Have been MIA

2010-03-04T17:32:00.000-08:00

It's been quite a while since I last played with this Blog but I have finally ended my personal website and I need someplace besides Flickr to talk about stuff and post art. I'm hoping to have some Moo cards made sometime in the near future and will use my blog address rather than a website address. Or maybe I will cave and buy my domain back. Who knows. :)

Christmas Swap Day 6

2008-12-19T08:42:00.000-08:00

Marie made these beautiful little earrings. Hearts are one of my favorite symbols, too. Sooooo pretty!!

Thank you Marie!!!

Christmas Swap Day 5

2008-12-19T08:39:00.000-08:00

I love this little matchbox! It is just so sweet!!

Thank you Patt!!!!

Christmas Swap Day 4

2008-12-17T07:05:00.000-08:00

Joann made these wonderful gifts.....a glass pendant and a lovely button.

These are so cool!!! Thanks Joann!!!

Christmas Swap Day 3

2008-12-16T07:05:00.000-08:00

I love this little book made by Halle!! The colors are so me!!

Thank you Halle!!!! (but it's so pretty I don't want to use it! LOL)

Christmas Swap Day 1

2008-12-15T20:00:00.000-08:00

The Christmas swap started on Sunday and here is Day 1's beautiful present!

This lovely little "Angel Baby" was made by Kathleen!

Day 2 was my gifty so the next day will be Day 3!

Rotten Friend

2008-11-10T20:58:00.000-08:00

While I hope that this blog will be mostly art related, I find that occasionally I need to put thoughts out there and I don't write in a journal any more.

I got a new computer yesterday and today I was transfering some saved websites from my old desktop to my laptop. I came across Monaco's LiveJournal address and realized with an absolute sick feeling that it has been almost a year since I spoke to her or emailed her or anything. So I went to her LiveJournal and she has moved back to the states and looks like she'll be living in Portland OR. and I totally missed all of that. And i feel horrible. She must hate me. She came home from Japan for a visit last Christmas and stayed with us a couple of days and I loved hanging out with her and then I let life sweep me away and didn't stay in touch.

Gods....I just feel like the worst person right now. :(

2008-11-05T18:32:00.001-08:00

And these are my very first ATCs!!!!!

All comments welcome. :o)

2008-11-05T18:30:00.000-08:00

These are altered playing cards. I'm not done with all of them yet.

2008-11-05T18:29:00.000-08:00

This is The Science of Being, my 3rd altered book.

2008-11-05T18:27:00.001-08:00

So, I wanted to post some images of some art I've done.....

This is Shakespeare's Forest, my 2nd altered book.

2008-11-05T13:49:00.000-08:00

There are some art pieces I really want to put up but can't right now because I don't know who will be looking at this and it just might be the recipients!! :o)

So instead, I will post a piece of art that I made using a couple of photos that I took of roses at my house and a frame I purchased at the thrift store.

This is a frame I picked up at a thrift store for $10. It's from Ikea and had a really ugly print inside a plain cream colored matte. I spray painted the print with flat white paint. Then I taped off the inside and spray painted the matte with sage green paint. I had a couple of my rose pictures printed at Costco. They are 8"x 8". I spray mounted them to the white background. I cut an 8x8 square of handmade paper and spray mounted it in the center. Then I looked for a rose quote online. I found one I loved and printed it on vellum which I then....you guessed it...spray mounted to the handmade paper.

I put it all together and restapled the back. I did modify the hanger in order to hang it vertically rather than horizontally as it had been.

I'm quite proud of this piece. It's an excellent example of why I buy things at thrift stores, even if I don't know what I'm going to do with it at the time. I had this frame leaning against the wall for months before I did anything with it.

Total cost: $13. I had the spray paints, spray mount and other tools on hand.

The middle part is a quote I printed on vellum. It reads: "A life with love with have some thorns but a life without love will have no roses". The author is unknown.

2008-11-05T12:28:00.000-08:00

I'm starting this because I would like a space away from Flickr to show my artistic endeavors and also because occasionally I do want to put my 2¢ out in the world. :o) I will hopefully post images and such later today.

Happy arting!

~Leigh